June 21, 2013

Donna Dickenson: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good

“Under the pressure of corporate interests and neoliberal policies, we’ve lost sight of the idea of the commons in biomedicine—but it has only disappeared temporarily from view. Reclaiming biotechnology for the greater good will involve resurrecting the commons.”—Donna Dickenson In...

June 20, 2013

An interview with Michael M. Weinstein and Ralph M. Bradburd in The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Read an interview with Michael M. Weinstein and Ralph M. Bradburd, authors of The Robin Hood Rules for Smart Giving.

June 20, 2013

Donna Dickenson on How Neoliberalism Is Shaping Science and Medicine

“Who would have predicted twenty years ago that you could get people to pay to … have a spit sample ana­lyzed to predict their personal propensity to common diseases?”—Donna Dickenson, Me Medicine vs. We Medicine In the following excerpt from...

June 19, 2013

Michael Marder and Monica Gagliano: How Do Plants Sound?

Michael Marder and Monica Gagliano discuss new research that shows that plants may make sounds independently of dehydration and cavitation-related processes.

June 19, 2013

Donna Dickenson, author of Me Medicine vs. We Medicine, Takes the Page 99 Test

“We risk losing sight of the common good in biotechnology—what I call ‘We Medicine’—in our haste to embrace personalized healthcare.”–Donna Dickenson The Page 99 Test asks authors to turn to page 99 in their books and explain how the page...

June 18, 2013

Rewiring the Real reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books

Read an excellent, detailed review of Mark C. Taylor’s Rewiring the Real by N. Katherine Hayles from the LA Review of Books.

June 18, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks, The Engine of Complexity, New Books from Transcript Verlag, and More!

Our weekly list of new titles including just published books from our new distributed press Transcript Verlag: Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO’s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity August Turak The Engine of Complexity: Evolution as Computation John...

June 18, 2013

Donna Dickenson — Me Medicine vs. We Medicine

“I ask this crucial question: how did we move from what was originally presented as a communitarian vision for the new genetic biomedicine to the now-dominant personalized medicine paradigm?”—Donna Dickenson The following post is by Donna Dickenson, author of Me...

June 14, 2013

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best posts from around the academic publishing blogosphere.

June 14, 2013

"I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave," by Mac McClelland — Best Busines Writing 2013

In “I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave,” originally published in Mother Jones and included in The Best Business Writing 2013, Mac McClelland describes her experiences working at a warehouse for an Internet company. She describes conditions in which workers are...

June 13, 2013

Denny Roy — The US and China Should Stop Striving for Trust

“Strategic trust will not be attainable for the foreseeable future. The U.S. and China have many areas of fruitful cooperation, which can and should go forward without waiting for trust to break out…. For these inherent rivals and potential adversaries,...

June 13, 2013

The Trouble is the Banks — Best Business Writing 2013

“I always believed getting an education was the only way to succeed in life. Now I regret it every single day.”—Donna DeNaro, from The Trouble is the Banks excerpted in The Best Business Writing 2013 The Trouble is the Banks...